In article <web.475c5ee4922777eb22e9f4040@news.povray.org>, 
nomail@nomail says...
> > And even if you prove times and places, which it invariably fails at,
> > your argument that God was involved in it is based ***solely*** on the
> > presupposition that because a lot of people believe in your God, this
> > validates the idea that *he* was involved somehow. Its argument via
> > popularity, not evidence.
> Ever heard of peer review? It works on popularity among peers. Man, if yo
u're
> trying to take science out of the picture you're doing a good job. <_<
> 
Darren addresses most of your rather bent thinking quite well, and even 
this one, to some extent. But what he didn't say is that peer review is 
***intended*** to catch major mistakes, massive flaws, errors, etc., and 
point them out, so that the originator has the opportunity to a) rethink 
their results and/or b) correct their errors. Popularity has nothing to 
do with it. Well, maybe if you are publishing for Discovery Institute or 
you manage to bribe people to hand your paper over to someone who *will* 
judge it by how popular it will be to your audience (like happened with 
one idiotic rant published in some 16th rate magazine, and which was 
then trumpeted as evidence that ID *could* get real articles into a 
major publication...) Mind you, the publication in question would, for 
most scientists, be used as emergency toilet paper and the "reviewer" 
proven to be someone specifically chosen to do the review *because* he 
favored the whining rant in it. Which is precisely the point. Real 
publications will rip you to shreds if all you manage to send them is a 
list of complaints you have, or your logic, data and methods are 
garbage. Popularity is the "last" thing anyone considers when doing such 
reviews.

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